Resources

The ELDAC Home Care Toolkit is designed for health professionals and care staff providing palliative care and supporting advance care planning for older Australians living with advanced life limiting illnesses, their families and carers.

This toolkit from the Department of Health serves as a guide for service providers to effectively implement wellness and reablement principles.

This tookit from Relationships Australia SA was designed to support capacity building and confidence of care workers when responding to residents of aged care facilities with common mental health issues.

Information and tools from the Department of Health for Commonwealth Home Support Programme service providers to support them to prepare, implement and evaluate the embedding of wellness and reablement in their organisation.

This checklist from the Department of Health and Aged Care is a guide for organisations in evaluating how they applied the principles of wellness and reablement.

The Dementia Outcomes Measurement Suite (DOMS) compiled by the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration is a compendium of validated tools for the assessment of various aspects of dementia by health care professionals.

Free dementia information kit from Dementia Australia (*please note you must provide some information in order to access this resource).

This resource from Dementia Training Australia aims to help health professionals educate their staff, by providing brief training sessions. (*please note you must be logged in as a Dementia Training Australia member (free) to watch video presentations and access resources).

This toolkit is the product of a project carried out over two years by HammondCare and Uniting Aged Care Victoria and Tasmania. The purpose of the project was to demonstrate that resident behaviours of concern could be reduced by making simple, evidence-based changes in four different areas of aged care.